http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28132
...The proposed monitoring measures will affect encrypted e-mail, such as the popular BlackBerry, networking sites like Facebook or Twitter, as well communication sites such as Skype.
Cash is already allocated for Obama’s new spy program. In the Pentagon’s fiscal 2011 budget proposal cybersecurity received a $105 million increase from the previous year. The Defense Department’s sub-command dedicated to cyber warfare—a facility in Fort Meade, Maryland, known as U.S. Cyber Command—is slated for a fiscal 2011 budget of $139 million under the Air Force budget proposal, in addition to funding from the U.S Strategic Command, which oversees its operations.
Federal law enforcement and counterterrorism experts claim the new Obama-sanctioned regulations are necessary in light of increased communications on the Internet between members of terrorist groups and organized crime gangs...
